ALAN 2013 First International Conference on Artificial Light at Night - Berlin, 28 - 30. October 2013 Abstracts
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SCHRIFTENREIHE VERLUST DER NACHT BAND 4 Annette Krop-Benesch, Christopher Kyba, Franz Hölker ALAN 2013 First International Conference on Artificial Light at Night Berlin, 28. – 30. October 2013 Abstracts
Annette Krop-Benesch,
Christopher Kyba, Franz Hölker
ALAN 2013
First International Conference on
Artificial Light at Night.
Abstracts
Universitätsverlag der TU BerlinBibliografische Information der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek verzeichnet diese Publikation in der Deutschen Nationalbibliografie; detaillierte bibliografische Daten sind im Internet über http://dnb.dnb.de/ abrufbar. Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin 2013 http://www.univerlag.tu-berlin.de Fasanenstr. 88 (im VOLKSWAGEN-Haus), 10623 Berlin Tel.: +49 (0)30 314 76131 / Fax: -76133 E-Mail: publikationen@ub.tu-berlin.de Das Manuskript ist urheberrechtlich geschützt. Herausgeber des Bandes Annette Krop-Benesch, Christopher Kyba, Franz Hölker Leibniz-Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei (IGB) Müggelseedamm 310, Berlin www.igb-berlin.de Herausgeber der Reihe Forschungsverbund Verlust der Nacht – Ursachen und Folgen künstlicher Beleuchtung für Umwelt, Natur und Mensch Dr. Franz Hölker, Prof. Dr. Dietrich Henckel, Prof. Dr. Stefan Völker Layout und Satz Grundlayout Reihe und Satz Band: Robert Hänsch, signtific@jpberlin.de Umschlag: unicom werbeagentur gmbh, Parkaue 36, 10367 Berlin, www.unicommunication.de Druck mandaro mediengesellschaft mbH, Eiswerderstraße 18, 13585 Berlin, www.mandaro.de Zugleich online veröffentlicht auf dem Digitalen Repositorium der TU Berlin: URL http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-tuberlin/frontdoor/index/index/docId/4257 URN urn:nbn:de:kobv:83-opus4-42577 [http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:83-opus4-42577] ISBN (print) 978-3-7983-2636-1 ISBN (online) 978-3-7983-2637-8
28 ALAN – First International Conference on Artificial Light at Night 28-30 October 2013 Berlin
Plenary Talk
The value of less Light – Sustainable architectural lighting design
Karolina M. Zielinska-Dabkowska,
Designs-4-People, PL
Since its beginning, the art of external These experiments conducted mainly
illumination has substantially influ- in the 1950s and 60s led to the birth
enced the creation and the perception of a new discipline called architectural
of architecture and the night-time urban lighting design. Since then many creative
environment. In her lecture, the author visions of architectural lighting started to
examines and defines the significant appear in urban environments at night.
interdisciplinary conditions related to When this concept of “painting with
architectural lighting design that have light” seemed to be reaching its peak, a
evolved over the years, starting from the number of limitations associated with
first simple exterior lighting projects to architectural lighting design emerged. The
the more modern, complex concepts of energy crisis of the 1970s forced the need
illumination. The first artistic experi- to reduce the costs of lighting and led to
ments with the effects of lighting on ar- the abandonment of costly and unneces-
chitecture date back to the ancient times. sary elements such as exterior lighting.
However, the more mature intentions of Later research in seemingly distant
lighting building facades for usability as and unrelated disciplines to architectural
well as aesthetic and artistic purposes lighting design such as biology, medicine,
appeared on a larger scale in the late ecology and environmental protection
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. has highlighted a number of conditions
Technology & Design
This went hand-in-hand with the inven- and restrictions which exterior lighting
tion of the electric light bulb. The signifi- projects should take into considera-
cant role in the search for new directions tion. Inappropriately designed exterior
on how to illuminate buildings played a lighting in cities has been identified as
central role at various world exhibitions, one of the reasons for climate change and
the experiences of building form using disorders in the integrity of ecosystems.
light performed by architects of modern- Attempts to address these interdisci-
ism era as well as experiments inspired plinary conditions in today’s projects
from theatre, primarily driven by Stanley of external illumination are not an easy
McCandless, Abe Feder and Richard Kelly. task. However, it should be noted that the
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rapid development of innovative lighting health and ecosystem integrity, electric
technologies has helped in resolving lighting highlights the basic elements of a
these issues to a certain extent. At the three-dimensional architectural composi-
same time, this development comes with tion in a night-time environment.
its own limitations, as the necessary Sustainable architectural lighting
technical knowledge is highly complex design does not have to be unimagina-
and beyond the scope of most architects. tive. Lighting designers should see light
The above issues related to interdisci- as a “24-hour system” in which natural
plinary conditions translate directly into light plays the key role and which is
new research questions on whether the supplemented and sometimes replaced
necessary technical expertise and com- by artificial means.
plex requirements arising from the need It doesn’t mean that lighting design
to save energy, to protect the environ- has no future due to the issues presented
ment or even to fulfill political demands – quite the opposite. Skilled professionals
have a negative impact on the quality of in this field are needed more than ever;
proposed lighting design solutions. In their experience and knowledge can lead
the era of new and numerous constraints to innovations, cost and energy savings
and requirements, is it still possible to and a positive environmental impact. By
not only unfold a building’s forms after designing lighting with balance, intelligent
dark, but also to creatively complement thinking and awareness of environmental
architectural concepts? It is also impor- and civil implications, professional light-
tant to define how to integrate specialist ing designers actively play a role in the
knowledge from the field of illumination quality of life for generations to come.
in the process of developing the concept The research study also examines the
of an architectural building. importance and extent of coordinating
and integrating lighting design within
Conclusion an architectural project. The author
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This research reveals that despite the provides evidence that collaboration
current new requirements of the twen- between architects and lighting design-
ty-first century that need to be fulfilled, it ers established adequately at the early
is still possible to complement architec- stages of concept design is necessary in
tural concepts and urban environments order to achieve better creative results
with quality projects of illumination. De- in “painting with light” as well as to help
spite the limitations resulting from stud- generate original lighting solutions for
ies on the effects of artificial illumination external concepts of architecture and
of building such as light pollution, human urban masterplans.You can also read
